And weve got to fight for decency. And im an optimist. On the glass halffull guy on most things, and we are going to be fine. America is going to be fine and ill do my best i can promise you that. But you have to do yours, too. Because again this whole thing is a bill from a peer down. It is build from there to the top. We work for you. You dont work for us. Thats kind of my [applause] we will call her up like a lady. Hi. My name is brenda. Ive been a caregiver for nearly 10 years. My husband has younger onset alzheimers disease. Might 89 yearold mother lives with me. She is alzheimers as well. Im one of 65000 alzheimers caregivers in the state of New Hampshire. One in five medicare dollars is spent on caring for someone with alzheimers disease. The projections are by 2050 thank you. [applause] by 2050, the projections are by 2050 28 million baby boomers will have alzheimers. I know firsthand the pain of seeing these people slip away. I know firsthand the financial burden this carries
Next, the organizing director at quentin. Why are these people here . Why arent they deported or why arent they still imprisoned . I am the organizing director. We have been around the past eight years and we came out of a direct response to the contract that sheriff arpaio signed and put into a limitation into implementation. We were born out of the crisis and a few years back, a big piece of the needs of our key minute he beyond community beyond doing the protest and the legal stuff it was essentially on a casebycase basis. Our people were saying they need support. My family, my husband my daughter is in detention and we need you to help us get them out. Jose found out about our work inside the jail and called his wife and said to look for us. We have been becoming experts at understanding the legal system, helping families navigate it and fight to get their loved ones out and in the past two years, we have gotten over 150 people out of detention through this level of advocacy and po
This mr. President. Having passed an amendment that would have said tier 3 countries in the trafficking in persons report of the state department would not be allowed preferential access to the u. S. Market unless they cleaned up their record, which had a strong bipartisan support of members of the Senate Finance committee and ultimately was incorporated in the t. P. A. , the trade Promotion Authority legislation that passed the senate and was sent to the house in good faith because of concerns that maybe that would undermine the transpacific partnership. In good faith i negotiated an amendment, a provision to change in the amendment that would have said you could still negotiate with malaysia, but they had to clean up their act. If you concluded that negotiation and they were part of t. P. P. , they had to clean up their act on Human Trafficking before they got the preferential access to u. S. Markets. I thought it was a significant give on my part considering the vote of the senate,
Looking at how do i put encryption and make it so no one can mess with the device other things that might have impact on People Living there. First off we noticed to make sure the government doesnt weaken encryption. Second of all we need to continue to see the growth in the kinds of research around encryption that is in some cases supported by the government. Anyone else . I share his comments. Also going back to the garage door opener. When that was introduced it was primitive, it was a fun thing to do to drive around the neighborhood and open up other peoples garage doors or similarly other peoples telephones. By todays standards it was relatively primitive even though novel then. As weve gotten more sophisticated, memory chips have grown, theres solutions and we dont hear about those problems anymore. It hasnt been an issue. Thank you. The reality is significant investment is made in innovating around privacy and security because its the right thing to do and consumers are demandin
Technology continues to grow. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses in how to address these challenges and i yield back the balance of my time. Thank you, mr. Adler. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Today were here to learning more about the internet of things. It has the ability to not only improve the more mundane aspects of our lives, but transform health care and Information Technology industries. This is of particular interest to the Judiciary Committee considering our longstanding jurisdiction when it comes to intellectual property Cloud Computing and digital trade. The internet of things refers to machines containing sensors that transmit data to other connected devices and the internet. Dramatic in Cloud Computing the past several years has helped to enable the technology to reach its full potential. Without the ability for data from an enter is net of things device to be analyzed in realtime, the data itself would certain little valuable. The a ability to access through mobile